Leroux: If those are the requirements, then yeah, good luck on finding many games that fit them. Most games don't even have royalty in them (not even the ones where you rescue a girl). I thought you were just looking for the opposite of the "damsel in distress" trope, that is a female rescuing a helpless male for a change.
LootHunter: But the whole point of "damsel in distress" trope is to create motivation for male character. Like, here is a woman - save her and you will have her... gratitude.
Thus my requirement is female protagonist saves male EITHER because he is prince/celebrity/cool guy OR he is being her (potential) love interest.
Considering that the average woman won't send an unsolicited PM through a dating app to a guy that appears to be her soul mate, I have a very hard time understanding how this wouldn't break the immersion to an irreparable degree.
I also have a hard time figuring out precisely whom this sort of thing would be targeting. Most women are either not interested in this genre at all or have no particular problem playing along with it.
As has been noted, the princess in these games is more or less a McGuffin, just an excuse for the gameplay that preceded the accomplishing of the quest.
tinyE: PUMP was a better album IMHO.
JDelekto: To be honest, I don't favor albums just because they have a song or two I like. When so many bands go corporate, there's one or good tunes, some filler and some BS that I think the corporate wants them to try --sometimes for failure or success.
I'd rather musicians be musicians; but when it comes to albums for musicians who sign those contracts, I hold out for the "Greatest Hits of [insert band name here]".
There are exceptions, but apart from a relatively short period of time during the late 60s to sometime in the '90s, an album was just a single surrounded with similarish songs to pad it out to an album length.
Weezer's Blue album and Nirvana's Never Mind are two of the most consistent albums in my collection. Not really any bad tracks on either of them, contrast that with a lot of the pop schlock where there's one good song and a bunch of crap.
It wasn't really until the Beatles that mainstream albums became their own artform, and I'm not sure if there were lesser bands doing that previously.
